LOW MORTALITY RATES.
BRITISH POPULATION
(British Official 'Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 23. Provisional estimates of the birth, death, and infantile mortality rates for 193 S were announced in a speech to-day at Norwich by Mr Walter Elliott (Minister of Health). Ho said that the infantile mortality rate was down to 53 per 1000 live births, constituting a new low rate record. It is five below the rate of 1937, and four below the previous record low rate of 1935. The birth rate this year is higher than in 1937 at 15.1 live'-births per 1000 of the population. The death rate in 1938 is. with tho exception of 1930, the lowest on record —11.6 per 1000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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114LOW MORTALITY RATES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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